The state prosecutor in the high-profile case of the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya has requested the Moscow City Court sentence her convicted killer, Rustam Makhmudov, to life in prison.

The number of the officially registered unemployed in Russia amounted to almost 929,000 people at the end of April, having decreased by 1.7 % for one month, according to the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation.